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 Influence, I mut now proceed to hew its Origin and trace its Progres, in the ucceive Developments of the human Mind. After having hewed, that Perfectibility, the ocial Virtues, and the other Faculties, which natural Man had received in Potentia, could never be developed of themelves, that for that Purpoe there was a Neceity for the fortuitous Concurrence of everal foreign Caues, which might never happen, and without which he mut have eternally remained in his primitive Condition; I mut proceed to conider and bring together the different Accidents which may have perfected the human Undertanding by debaing the Species, render a Being wicked by rendering him ociable, and from o remote a Term bring Man at lat and the World to the Point in which we now ee them.

I mut own that, as the Events I am about to decribe might have happened